In short, a wonderful and unexpected experience. Small/quaint town, a few pubs and a couple of…read morecasual restaurants. Connected to a lovely hotel, it has a captive audience for hotel guests because there just isn't much else. However, it's a lot more than this. Locals and businessmen come here...because it is really good.
AMBIANCE/ENERGY/VIBE: it has it in abundance. Goodness all around.
SERVICE: super friendly, super nice. Everyone at least attempts to speak various degrees of English, and is a willing participant. Staffed appropriately, there was always someone in the near distance to flag down. Did I say very nice? They are. Shout our to Fabio, who was super sweet, extremely likeable, talkative, and very helpful.
FOOD: I tried a number of things, coming here both nights I stayed at the Hotel. The menu has 55 types of pizza (which is cray cray, and the website says over 100 types), salads, entrees such as various seafood & a couple of steaks, veal Milanese, pastas, and desserts. They have a full bar, wine, and beer. Lots of good things to try and choose from.
1. Mixed Salad [5 E, 5.0 stars] -- super fresh, totally delish.
2. Mixed Vegetables [5 E, 4.5 stars] -- a small plate of grilled vegetables, eggplant, zucchini, yellow & red peppers, and endive.
3. Tagliatelle Black Truffle [15 E, 4.5 stars] -- the gf and I split the dish, and they were nice enough to divide it into two in the kitchen...perfectly enough and good overall portion. Truffle pieces were a little tough, but wonderful overall.
4. Ricottina Pizza [10 E, 4.5 stars] -- Tomato, Mozzarella cheese, Fresh Ricotta, Sausage, dried tomatoes and rocket salad. Amazing crust, loved the toppings.
5. La Milanese [20 E, 4.0 stars] -- large piece with bone-in, perfectly fried served with freshly fried potatoes.
6. Mixed Gelato [5 E, 5.0 stars] -- chocolate, crema, lemon -- all amazing and housemade, but the lemon was best, tasted like lemon crème.
7. Panne Cotta with Berries [5 E, 4.5 stars] -- if you like this normally, it's quite wonderful. Totally worthy.
OVERALL: I'll miss it. Very worthy and memorable, mostly the people. For this area, it's a 5.0 star experience.
